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as weH in our own pulpits , as in ii- > eenaed meeting-houses , it is a species of toleration which would shortly end In the destruction of the Church . The foundation , indeed , might thereby be widened ; bat it would be widened with materials which would soon let down the whole superstructure /'
This is , at least , a candid confession of intolerance in the internal government of the Church . Happy those that , in search of Christiaft liberty , have put themselves under the protection of English law , which allows such as choose to have churches without
Bishops , or Bishops who are not Lords . Dr . Marsh was charged by the petitioner to the House of Lords , with treading in the steps of Archbishop Laud . He partly admits the charge , and he anticipates hypothetieally a fate , which Heaven avert !
*' Nor is it improbable' * ( says his Lordship , Speech , p . 33 ) " that the fate which attended Archbishop Laud would befal the Bishop of Peterborough , if the same party should again obtain the ascendancy in the Church . " The manifest temper of the House of Lords on this occasion , must have shaken Dr . Marsh's confidence in his
Own proceeding's ; and it seems pro- * bable that in future Parliaments , Bishops will have something else to do than to defend and justify new tests of orthodoxy . CANTABRIG 1 ENSIS .
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894 Peterborough Questions .
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heaven , and reserved in chains of darkness unto the judgment of the great day ? JOHN MARSOM .
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Sin , EVERY Dissenter mtist be amused with the controversy now carrying on with regard to what are called the " Peterborough Questions / ' that is ,
Eighty-seven Questions for trying the Orthodoxy of Candidates for Orders , and of Curates applying for Licenses . Bishop Marsh muse have a great love of asking questions , for he has now drawn up 3 o more . These new ones , he says * are to be answered by curates only , but . the curates , if they were
ordaiued in his diocese , must have previously answered the 87 % so that they will have answered in all 123 questions , drawn up for the explanation of 39 articles , themselves compiled " for avoiding of Diversities of Opinions , and for the establishing of Consent touching True Religion . " Where will this end ?
The Bishop of Peterborough has printed hifr speech on the discussion of this matter in the House of Lord 3 , and the perusal of it has suggested this letter , in which I wish to call the attention of your readers particularly to this prelate ' s statement of the
doctrine and practice of Toleratioti within the Church of England . "I hardly know" ( he says , m a note to the Speech , pp . 29 , 30 ) " what answer to give , when I am charged with want of Toleration in the use of these questions . Toleration is a terttl which applies only to EHssenters from the
Established Church . It is quite inapplicable to those wiio profess conformity to the 39 articles , which were published * for avoiding * diversities of opinions . * Though we ean understand , therefore , what is meant by the toleration of Dissenters , when they
have perfect liberty to preach their own doctrines in their own places of worship , we involve ourselves in a contradiction , when we speak about the toleration of dissent on the part of those who are bound by Articles ' for the stablishing of consent touching true religion / But if the toleration , which the Examination Questions are supposed to infringe , denotes the privilege of preaehirtg dissentfrom the doctrines of the Church *
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Warminster * Sir , : July 8 , 1822 . npiHERE is a letter preserved of the JL Emperor Adrian ' s * which reflects
much on the Christians of Alexandria in his time , as worshipers of the god Serapis . It is preserved by Flaviua Vopiseus itk his Life of Saturirinus , a writer who flourished within two
centuries of thi 3 emperor . The letter is as follows , addressed from Egypt to his brother-in-law , Servian , at that time Consul in Rome : " Adrian Emperor to Servianus Consul- health .
"You gave me great commendations of Egypt , my dear Servian ; I have studied the nation well , and have discovered nothing but levity , caprice , inconstancy and a readiniess to change with every wind .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1822, page 604, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2517/page/20/
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